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Turkey's government is planning a broad series of investments worth as much as $12 billion in the country's largely Kurdish southeast to create jobs and draw young men away from militancy, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday.

Adm. William Fallon, the top U.S. military commander for the Middle East, is resigning, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday. Gates said Fallon had asked him Tuesday morning for permission to retire and Gates agreed.

Iraq isn't spending much of its own money, despite soaring oil revenues that are pushing the country toward a massive budget surplus, auditors told Congress today.

A day after the U.S. military announced that overall violence was down in Iraq, eight American soldiers were killed in a pair of attacks. That's the highest single-day toll in months, and it's not the only recent incident of violence.

During the Saddam Hussein era in Iraq, many women drove. Today, only a few are on the roads. They've stopped getting behind the wheel because they fear radical Islamist reprisals, American convoys, and carjacking. Many women miss driving...

At least two members of the Awakening Councils were killed Tuesday and eight more people were wounded, including police officers, in separate attacks in Iraq, media reports said.

A roadside bomb hit a bus traveling in southern Iraq on Tuesday killing at least 16 civilians on board, police said. The bus was traveling from Basra to Nasiriyah...At least 22 others were wounded in the attack that took place about 50 miles south...

A GRAVE containing 20 bodies has been found by Iraqi security forces near Samarra, just days after 100 decomposed bodies were found at another site. The most recent mass grave, containing the bodies of men, women and children...

Around 20 gunmen attacked a juvenile prison and freed five prisoners in Baghdad, police said. Three guards and three prisoners were wounded in the attack.

Three Coalition Force Soldiers and an interpreter were killed by an improvised explosive device attack in eastern Diyala province, March 10. Another Soldier was wounded and transported to a Coalition medical facility for treatment.

Bombers unleashed a wave of explosions in Baghdad and north of the capital Monday, including two attacks that killed eight U.S. service members in the deadliest day for the military this year, American and Iraqi authorities said.

A car bomb set off in the northern Iraqi provincial capital of Sulaimaniya has wounded up to 30 people on what has been a violent day across Iraq. Sulaimaniya's governor, Dana Ahmed Majid says a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-packed car...

Four Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldiers were killed and one later died of wounds when a suicide bomber detonated among them while they patrolled in central Baghdad today. Three U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were injured...

US forces have begun reducing their presence in western Iraq and plan to close some large bases in what was once the country's most violently contested region, a senior commander said Monday.

Five U.S. soldiers were killed and three others wounded in a bomb blast in central Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said, in the worst single attack on U.S. forces in Baghdad in months.

U.S. soldiers killed five suspected al Qaeda fighters and detained 19 others during operations in central Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. military said.

A female suicide bomber on Monday killed the head of a local group of Sunni fighters northeast of Baghdad who had turned against al-Qaida insurgents, the leader's brother and a provincial police official said. Sheik Thaeir Ghadhban al-Karkhi...

The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years...

The U.S. military said on Sunday that it does not think that a recent wave of deadly attacks in Baghdad reflects an overall increase in violence. U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, the military spokesman, said that a wave of horrific incidents...

A child was wounded when a mortar bomb landed near a school in Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.